Articles Tagged "Don Surber"

PERHAPS it is my contrarian nature, or maybe it is a Sunday School belief that man cannot destroy what man has not created.

But for whatever reason, I reject the whole concept of man-made global warming.

The same modern scholars who would mock the ancients for blaming the behavior of man for natural catastrophes are now telling me that driving an automobile that gets less than 20 miles a gallon will turn the world into a blazing hell on Earth.

In November 2007, John Brignell, a British engineering professor, made a list of 600 different things that “studies” said global warming would cause.

It included trees in Antarctica (which is now covered with 7.2 million cubic miles of ice).

Predictions of other changes caused by manmade global warming included an increase in avalanches and a decrease in avalanches, fewer bananas and more bananas, more salt in the Atlantic and less salt in the Atlantic, tectonic plate movement, no more White Christmases and more blizzards — and my favorite, more floods and more droughts.

For too long, proponents of the unproven and untested theory that man is causing global warming have received a free ride from the press, particularly Andrew Revkin of the New York Times. But global warmist Peter Gleick has not only turned Andrew Revkin against him, but Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press — another reporter who suspends disbelief whenever the topic of climate change pops up.

Readers should note that this scandal differs from Climategate because the Heartland Institute was and is under no obligation to share anything with the public — while the PhDs involved in Climategate were involved, in part, in a conspiracy to dodge Freedom of Information requests, which were triggered by their acceptance of government grants.

The major problem with peter Gleick — and the Associated Press glossed over it — is that he committed fraud by forging documents. He made up documents and attributed them to the Heartland Institute — much as Dan Rather did against President Bush in 2004. Both cases were felonies to me, but don’t look for Peter Gleick to be tossed behind bars.

How hard have the Climategate scandals rocked the people pushing global warming? The No. 1 global warmist at the New York Times — Andrew Revkin — now wants Rajendra Pachauri “to take a new approach to discussing climate change or leave the chairmanship of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” Andrew Revkin ironically contends that Rajendra Pachauri has lost his objectivity.

Talk about a cueball calling a man bald. Andrew Revkin has pretended to be a reporter for years while pushing this pseudo-science nonsense about man causing the planet to turn into a fiery inferno.

In a breathtakingly surreal column, Andrew Revkin wrote: “To my eye, Pachauri has strayed too often into policy statements that appear to go well beyond what the panel, in its charter and its new communication plan, is supposed to do ‘to ensure objectivity and transparency as well as safe-guard the IPCC as a policy-relevant but policy-neutral organization.’ Of course, my views are simply those of someone who has relied on the panel as a journalist since it was created as a remarkable experiment in science analysis and communication in 1988.”

From ABC News: “The pictures today from around the world of dramatic rooftop rescues from raging waters, makes it seem as though natural disasters are becoming an everyday occurrence. But they’re not all that natural; climate scientists say man-made global warming is the sudden force behind the forces of nature.”

No one who has followed the global warming hoax would buy that.

Not after Climategate in which government-grant-seeking PhDs admitted they manipulate the data to scare people.